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> ’-;SpP PACE FOUB THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1959 Old Pharmacy Is Typical Of Charleston CHARLESTON—Charleeton calls itself “America’s Most Historic City.” Any detailed description of its many “firsts” could easily fill a printed volume of average size. Where else, for instance, could you see an old Negro, a former slave, walk into a pharmacy—par don, apothecary is more fitting word when referring to “old” Charleston—that’s had him as a regular and satisfied customer for over 90 years? Such, however, is to be found in this ancient city-by-the-sea, known for countless things, not least among them being the locale of the late DuBose Heyward’s novel, “Porgy,” and of the late George Gershwin’s m u s i c a 1 adaption, “Porgy and Bess,” so tremendous ly a success in the theater. The satisfied patron of the same pharmacy for a span of over 90 years is a former slave boy who began trading at Schwettmann’s Apothecary Hall during the Civil War and is still a customer as his AMERICANA Cities To See Biloxi, Mississippi's Vacation Spot Highway and Beach—Biloxi, Miss. R ISING above the clear white sands of the nation’s longest “man- ■ made” beach, the century old lighthouse at Biloxi, Mississippi is an historic landmark well known to visitors from all over the country. Biloxi, the oldest French city in the United States and once capital of the Louisiana Purchase Territory, was settled in 1699 by Pierre leMoyne d’Iberville for King Louis XIV. Eight flags have flown over this deep-in-dixie city on a peninsula of the Gulf of Mexico. d’Iber ville met the Biloxi Indians on his arrival on the front of Gulf Beach. Even though located on the Gulf of Mexico, the Biloxi Indians were members of the Sioux family and Biloxi, in Indian languare, signi fies, “The First People.” Modern-day Biloxi is a year- round vacation city, with luxurious hotels and motels. It is also a mil itary town, the site of Kessler Air Force Base, “The Electronics Training Center of the Air Force.” Population-wise, Biloxi is growing rapidly. The city, which now has over 37/'00 population, has shown a gain of 114.2 per cent since 1940. MODERN BEACH Today a modern, four-lane high way follows the Biloxi shore line, only a few feet away from the 28- mile sand beach which extends from the Bay of Biloxi to Bay St. Louis. The blue waters of the Gulf are not only a playground for boat ing enthusiasts and fishermen but as well an important factor in Bilox’s economy. The city is the largest shrimp and oyster port in the world. Local fisheries oper ate more than 900 boats and em ploy 12,000 people. Historic Spots Interesting to Biloxi’s many visi tors are such historic spots as “Beauvoir,” last home of Jeffer son Davis, President of the Con federacy; and Ship Island, 12 miles out in the Gulf, the harbor for French exploration and settlement from 1699 to 1720. Duiing the War Between the States, Fort Massa chusetts, completed by the Fed eral Government, was used as a prison under General Butler. Biloxi Lighthouse was erected in 1848, and painted black at the time of Lincoln assasination (to show the people’s resentment and feeling against the fiendish act). THE BAFFLES By Mahoney WELL,OUR. VACATION IS OVER AND IPS TIME TO HEAD FOR HOME. YES-BUT WHERElS BILLY? HE'S PACKING ALL THE SOUVENIRS WE BOUGHT FOR HIM... BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM. —4L. The Question d V/eskiy SET 'EM UP ow A*E V rA A summer job offers the excel lent opportunity for a teenager to lay away a bit of spending money for the next school term, when it is certain to be needed. Today, the average teenager gets a weekly allowance. At least, during the school term. Some par ents forego allow-ances during the summer in order to force Junior to earn his own, so to speak. The alert and aggressive teen ager can almost always find a nart-time job during the vacation period. It may not be in a chosen field of endeavor and, it may pay less than it should, but it offers both valuable business experience and some sort of financial renu meration. The modern teenager needs both. The wise teenager will not de pend too heavily upon the weekly allowance. It comes too easy in Strom; lurmond ple INFLATION AND OUR FARMERS Every day I am becoming more and more impressed with the need to curt) the extravagant spending policies of the Federal Govern ment. Deficit spending is the re sult of extravaganve, and infla tion is the result of deficit spend ing. Everyone is hurt by higher prices, the principal evil of infla tion. Some groups are affected more than others. One of these groups, our farmers, particularly feel the pinch of inflation on their nocketbooks because for several years now' they have been having to pay more for their implements and supplies while they have been receiving less and less for their products. This is the vicious price- cost squeeze which must be stop ped if we are going to preserve our farm population, w r hich serves as the backbone of our national economy. The price-cost squeeze must be attacked from tw T o directions. First, we must conquer the infla tionary spii’al, and secondly, we must take action both legislatively and administratively to insure our farmers their rightful share of the national income. I have been fighting extravagant and wasteful government spending since com ing to the Senate, and I shall con tinue to do so against the cries for age approaches the century mark. The apothecary was old even then. It was established during the Revolutionary War in 1780. It has had a succession of owners and names hut has been known as Schwettmann’s to three generations of Charlestonians. Not only did the store survive bombardment of the city by the Federal fleet hut also rather a co mic riot in 1887. It seems that during a long- rainy spell a rumor spread among the freed negroes that the pro prietor of the apothecary shop had a mermaid in captivity. The su- perstitous ex-slaves believed such was the cause of the never ending- downpour. The rioters marched on the store, forced entry, searched it from floor to ceiling. No mermaid w-as found, of course. A contempor ary report, however, does indicate that among 1,he store ow-ner’s bio logical specimens there were two that survived fqr a long time—a sea horse and a toad. The store is not without some very unusual aspects even now. For instance, some long-time cus tomers settle their bills only once a year, and few even biennially. A replica of the original 17 by 17 feet apothecary is preserved in the Charleston Museum. Much of the earlier interior trim and his toric equipment were donated by previous owners. Present owner of Schwettmann’s is 69-year-old J. Harmon Peiper, who has been in pharmacy for over 50 years. Recently he w-as present ed a handsome plaque by Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamid Company, for outstand ing community service through pharmacy. This was in recognition of the pharmacy’s attainment of the one millionth prescription mark —a rather rare achievement in the pharmaceutical world. Pharmacist Peiper, naturally, has seen amazing change take place in the pharmaceutical and medical professions. At the formal presentation of the award, though, he particularly cited he’d seen the incidence cf once highly fatal pneumonia drop sharply in recent years and the cost of its treat ment plummet from $1,000 or more to $100 or less. many cases, and it is also restric tive. The average family has dif ficulty staying within its budget— and the average teenager has just as much trouble keeping within his weekly allowance. Some teen agers don’t even try, it’s true. We know of one who spends his weekly allowance within two days, treating his friends to sodas and malts, and picking up every check. The rest of the week he’s after his parents every time the need for a little spending money arises. He gets it because, for some reason, his parent's haven’t found out that he spends it all on his friends. Being generous with friends is an excellent trait for any teenager— if his parents can afford it. Sooner or later, every teenager grows up and must make his own way in the world. Summer em ployment is good training. Next best is the art of learning to live within an allowance. If you have a teenage problem you want to discuss, or an observation to make, address your letter to FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS. NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVICE, FRANKFORT, KY. more and more Federal domestic and foreign handouts. All extra vagance and waste must be elimi nated, and some projects, although they may seem worthy, must be postponed or reduced to the bare essentials in order to stave off in flation and to restore some resem blance of fiscal sanity to our gov ernment. PEOPLE MUST ACT I have received many communi cations from South Carolinians— one group being the State Farm Bureau—expressing approval of my votes against the extravagance in the housing and airport bills. If inflation is to be checked, then more of the people must make their wishes known through their elected representatives. Thus far this year there has not been adequate time for the Agri culture Committees .to consider the various proposals :'or making it possible for our farmers to earn their share of the national income. It is my hope that some realistic, helpful legislation will be approv ed by Congress as soon as possible I shall study all these proposals most carefully with a view toward vigorously supporting those which take a sensible and realistic ap proach toward raising the income of our farmers. ECONOMY RESOLUTION A resolution I am drafting, if adopted, will be a step in the dir ection of Federal fiscal responsi bility and ultimate economy. This resolution would require all legis lative bills which authorize either contract commitment of Govern ment funds or direct borrowings from the United States Treasury to have the approval of the Ap propriations Committee of the Se nate, regardless of which other committee of the Senate has juris diction over the subject matter of the bill. The appropriation procedure of Congress is by-passed increasing ly more often by legislative pro posals. Many billions of dollars each year are being spent without the approval of the Appropriation Committee, which has the necfes sary knowledge of the overall fis cal picture to realize the value jpf economy. Sincerely Strom Thurmond Negro Youth Wins Honors In 4-H Work Curtis Williams, a member of the Senior 4-H Club of Gailman nigh School, was awarded a $50.00 Bond, donated by the Internation al Harvester Company, and given as a State aw-ard for outstanding work in Boys Agriculture. He was awarded the State Gold Cup for the most outstanding work in Negro boys in 1957. He was com mended by State 4-H Club offi cials for such a remarkabierecord. County Negro Agricultural Agent, B. J. Gill, is very proud of Curtis and hopes that there will be other 4-H boys of Newberry County to continue in 4-H Club work, so they too maybe awarded some of the high honors 4-H Club work offers. Curtis’ story of his 4-H w’ork follow's: (By CURTIS WILLIAMS) On January 16, 1951, I joined the Belmont 4-H Club. I guess my greatest reason w'as because I had three brothers and tw'o sisters already members of the same club, with each carrying a 4-H project, supervised by the Negro County Extension Workers, B. J. Gill and Mrs. Lillian G. Saunders. My first projects assigned me by Mr. Gill at my request were poultry and corn. That spring, I planted one half acre of corn. Af ter gathering my corn in the fall, I sold some of it and purchased 50 baby chicks. After feeding baby chicks fof 10 weeks, they averag ed about three pounds each and sold for $1.00 each. In 1952, I planted 1 acre of corn. In January, I purchased 100 baby chicks and after ten weeks of age I sold them. In July, I purchased another 100 w'hich I also sold for $1.00 per chick. In March, 1953, my father built a poultry' house that he could grow out 3300 broilers at a time. He gave me the job of car ing for the chicks and told me that he would give me 200 chicks out of each group grown out. We grew' out three houses the first year which gave me 600 chicks. I sold my chicks for an average of 90c each. In 1954, I was transferred to the Elisha 4-H Club. In this club there was a dairy calf group. Af ter talking about the dairy calf Former College Football Star Dies Sunday Huff Tyler Templeton, 60, of Ann Arbor, Mich., died in a hos pital there Sunday after a serious illness of two weeks. He w'as born in Laurens County, but had spent most of his life in Greenville and Ann Arbor. He enlisted for Army service during World War I. He was gas sed and wounded twice in action during service with the AEF in France. Returning from military ser vice, he entered Newberry College, from which he was graduated four years later. He w'as a star football player at Newberry. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at Ann Arbor. group with Mr. Gill, I decided to join the club. My father told me that I could continue to care for the chickens and he would give me a baby calf. The next calf that came was a jersey female. This suited me just fine, so I took the calf and cared for her. Later in the same year, I took her to the 4-H District Dairy Calf Show held in Chester, and sne won first prize. In 1955, 1 was transfered to the Reuben consolidated school. There I became a member of the Senior 4-H Club, which was a very large group of 89 4-H boys and girls. Later in the year, my father gave me a baby bull calf (Jersey). He was a registered calf and I de cided to keep him and let him ser ve on community cows for $3.00 per serve, in order to get some ex tra money for school. During the same time, I cared for my fath er’s chickens. We grew out 5 houses. My share was 100 chicks which I sold for 80c per chick. In 1956, I took $10.00 of my chicken money and got Mr. Gill to purchase me a pig so I could grow him out for the State Fat Barrow Show and Sale held in Columbia, S. C. In the meantime my cow had a calf, which was a Jersey. Now I had three dairy ani mals, a pig, and I would get 1000 baby chicks this year. This I thought would oe a great year for me. I sold my pig at the State Fat Barrow Sale for $18.95, my chickens for $630.00 Feed for my chickens cost $280.00 plus the $100 for the cost of chicks, so I had a profit of $250.00. I sold my milk with my father, and my share for the year was $105.00. Therefore in 1956, my gross income was $358.55. In 1957, I started out with the same projects as in 1956. That year, I gained another baby dairy calf, giving me a total of 4 dairy cattle. Through Mr. Gill, I pur chased a pig to he grown out, and I continued to care for my father’s chickens for 200 per house. My chickens brought $266.60; milk from my cows brought $116.66. My pig valued $23.40, my hull about $125.00, my cow $150, and my yearling $100. I had my yearling on exhibit at the State Fair and won second place. In 1958, I continued to carry the same projects as in previous years. To date, I have 5 dairy cat tle, one fat barrow, and sold 1,000 broilers. Mr. Gill my County Agricultur al Agent, valued my cattle at $684.00 at the completion of this record in September, 1958. My pig values $60.00, and my 1000 broilers brought $320.00 net. I sold a calf for $104.00. My father has made an agreement with me since he was so pleased with my work with the chickens and on the farm, to increase my allotment to 400 chicks per house load, starting at the close of this re cord. In August, 1958, I attended che National Regional Camp, held in Washington, D. C., as a delegate to represent the Negro 4-H Club boys of South Carolina. For outstanding work in Boys Agricultural, I won a $50.00 Bond,"given by the International Harvester Co. This year marks the greatest year of my 4-H Club work. The training and experience, that I have received during my eight years as a 4-H’er, have really paid off. I shall endeavor, with all my heart, training and experience, to help other 4-H’ers in my com munity to attain the benefits 4-H Club work offers. It is my belief, that as a Junior Leader in mv community, I can be of much ser vice to the people of my commun ity. I shall be forever grateful to the County Agricultural Agent, Mr. B. J. Gill, for the interest he has shown in me over the past years. His training, advice and guidance are responsible for my achievements. I wish to thank the Internation al Harvester Company for the $50.00 Bond that I received. I plan to continue my 4-H Club work in the same projects that I am now carrying. I also plan to keep all female calves from my cows and enlarge my herd. * Prosperity News MRS. B. T. YOUNQ, Correspondant The Literary Sorosis met Feb. 14 with Mrs. A. R. Chappell. Mrs. C. E. Hendrix of Estill was a visi tor. The program on Archibald Rut ledge Poet Laureate of South Ca rolina was presented by Mrs. B. M. Clark. The hostess served a sa lad plate using the valentine motif. Mrs. Chris Suber of Anderson spent Friday with her sister Mrs. D. H. Hamm, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James Edward Johnson, Mrs. Leon Cumber, and Mrs. Frances Jones of Wilming ton, N. C. were in town Tuesday to attend the funeral of their brother Mr. Clayton Wright. The Crepe Myrtle Garden Club met with Mrs. B. M. Clark Wed. Feb. 4th. Topic for the program was “Low Country Gardens” Mrs. John Tay lor program leader spoke of the Low Country Gardens. Hints by Mrs. W. B. Ackerman. For recreation, Mrs. Ruth Pugh had “jumbled word” contest using the name “Washington”. The prize went to Miss Myrtle Ruff Refreshments were served by hostess. Mrs. Livingston Dies Sunday Mrs. Minnie Shealy Livingston, 81, widow of Tautan S. Livingston, of Rt. 1 Newberry, died Sunday afternoon at a local hospital fol lowing declining health of several years and an illness of three days. Mrs. Livingston was born and reared in the Pineywood section of Lexington County, a daughter of the late John and Catherine Dehart Shealy. She had spent most of her life in the Jolly Street and St. Pauls section of Newberry County and was a member of St. Pauls Lutheran Church. She had made her home in Newberry for a number of years and at the time of her death she was making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Handy Davis. Her husband died in 1948. Surviving are three sons, A. Otis and Thomas H. Livingston, both of Newberry and John E. Livingston of Middletown, Del.; one daughter, Mrs. Handy Davis of Newberry; one grandson, and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed at 3 p.m. Tuesday at St. Pauls Lutheran Church by the Rev. J. L. Drafts and the Rev. Ralph A. Rhyne. Burial was in the church cemetery. Miss Martha Counts of Savan nah, Ga., spent the weekend with her mother Mrs. Mabel Counts. Mrs. Wofford Cooper was hos tess to the Iris Garden Club on Feb. 11th with Mrs. Bittle Haw kins, V.-President presiding. Mrs. Mrs. Thomas B. Harmon, program leader presented mechanics of Flowers arrangements. Gleamings by Mrs. Leroy Pugh, using Valentine poems. For recreation, Heart Dice was used, Mrs. J. I. Ruff was high scorer, Mrs. Otis Shealy, low. The hostess, served a salad plate using the Valentine motif. Mrs. English Lyles and Mrs. Louis Boulware of Winnsboro, Mrs. J. W. GettSinger of Ridge- were guests on Tuesday of Mrs Frank Browne. Frank McMillian of Savannah Ga., was a weekend visitor of his grandmother, Mrs. Lilliian Har mon. Alpha Delta Kappa Meets The South Carolina Theta Club of Alpha Delta Kappa met with Mrs. Ed Beck Monday, February 16 at 7:30 with Mrs. Marvin Ruck er, vice-president, presiding in the absence of the president. Miss Lor raine Paris. Mrs. Pinckney Abrams, chap lain opened the meeting with pray er. The program followed, with various phases of the handbook studied by members. A donation was sent by the club for the scholarship fund of the living memorial. After the business session, the hostess served delicious refresh ments. It was announced that the state convention will be held in Char leston on April 4. A large repre sentation from the Newberry club expects to attend. THE BAFFLES By Mahoney I -J5 SEARS ROEBUCK AND CO SPECIAL! By Popular Demand for AD This Week Big 9x12 RUG Complete with Mat REGULAR PRICE $79.50 NOW *39.95 These beautiful rugs are woven of 50% durable wool, blended with 50% carpet rayon yarn. Dense “plush” pile makes for comfortable walking underfoot. Catalog Sales Store 1 Main St. Phone 1702 Newberry, S. C.